7.92×33mm Kurz
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7.92×33mm Kurz
I guess 36 caliber (.375) is 'oddball' now but I hear is was common about 150 years ago.
My granny gave me this one decades ago. I shoot really light loads in it now.
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In today’s world of shooters 30-30 is getting pretty oddball. I’m not sure if any of my buddies own one, and those guys have lots of toys.I don't think you understand what oddball means.
30-30 still is popular in the NE as a deer gun but did not think they were all that popular here in TX.I don't think you understand what oddball means.
30-30 still is popular in the NE as a deer gun but did not think they were all that popular here in TX.
I've not seen many for sale at guns shows or seen a lot of threads/posts about them in the forums here. My guess would have been they are an offbeat caliber in Texas mostly because of more open spaces when hunting. Are they popular here?
Something rare (seldom found) is necessarily offbeat but something offbeat is not necessarily rare - just not the usual that you would expect.There are very few of the cartridges you guy's listed that I'd call "Offbeat". Most can easily be bought online,or brass can be bought to load your own.
Offbeat to me is a rare antique cartridge or a wildcat cartridge. If you have to form or modify cases in order to make ammo for it,then it is Offbeat.
Just because your local Walmart or Sporting Goods store doesn't stock the cartridge you shoot doesn't make it Offbeat.
The only ones that I have anymore are a 6.5-06 and a 6.5x6.8 wildcat AR-15.
New Marlins do not seem to get the attention the old ones get, no matter the caliber.A guy at a gun show a month back was trying to sell a new unfired Marlin .30-30 and not getting much attention from the dealers or the crowd. I considered it to thread the muzzle as a suppressor host.
New Marlins do not seem to get the attention the old ones get, no matter the caliber.
30-30 still is popular in the NE as a deer gun but did not think they were all that popular here in TX.
I've not seen many for sale at guns shows or seen a lot of threads/posts about them in the forums here. My guess would have been they are an offbeat caliber in Texas mostly because of more open spaces when hunting. Are they popular here?
That too then as I suspected, maybe not all that popular here.Everyone was interested until they found out it was a .30-30.
I think demographics plays a lot into it. Most buddies were buying tactical stuff (I was too) but it was a good deal and I didn’t have one. Most of my Marine buddies are ARs, AKs, SCARs type stuff, maybe a bolt gun. Also cans and SBR type stuff. Lever action hunting rifles are not the popular thing right now, especially with all the calibers available in an AR.Put up a poll. I’m guessing 40-60% of us have one.
I've noticed, over the years, when you are young, you often go with what is popular at the moment.(and yes it is but a moment). Some folks' tastes in guns stay that way even through a ripe old age; however, some others change their gun interests, not necessarily by no longer liking what they liked all along but by adding other things. Sometimes they add those of a bygone era. My son was into his AR, AKs more than any of my older long guns when we lived in NY and he got old enough to buy his own. He was also into whatever pistols I had that he could legally shoot when we went to NH or PA (of course, being law abiding citizens he never shot them in NY - me handing him one to just look at would have been considered a criminal act - FUAC). He never got a pistol license because he did not want to bend to the state that would have only given him a target/hunting pistol license (license to carry all but impossible for non-retired LEO or celebrity to obtain).I think demographics plays a lot into it. Most buddies were buying tactical stuff (I was too) but it was a good deal and I didn’t have one. Most of my Marine buddies are ARs, AKs, SCARs type stuff, maybe a bolt gun. Also cans and SBR type stuff. Lever action hunting rifles are not the popular thing right now, especially with all the calibers available in an AR.